Lichfield The Scales
Brewing played a key role in Lichfield’s past and by 1732 there were eighty innkeepers recorded in Lichfield .
The coach trade also supplied this industry, as travellers passed through the city stopping at coaching inns such as ‘The Swan’ and ‘The George’.
The Kings Head
Known as the King's Head since c.1650, but previously called the Antelope and The Bush.
Said to be the oldest pub in Lichfield dating from 1408, the King's Head later became one of the city’s many coaching inns. In 1828, the London to Manchester Herald called at the inn each day (except Mondays) and in 1834, the ‘True Blue’ coach ran from here to Birmingham at eight o’clock every morning, and to Rugeley at six o’clock each evening.
The King’s Head is often called the ‘Home of the Staffordshire Regiment’. In March 1705, Colonel Luke Lillingston raised a regiment of foot here at the Inn which would become known as the 38th foot by 1751 and as the 1st Staffordshire Regiment in 1783. After a reorganisation just under a hundred years later, it became the 1st Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment
Lichfield The Scales
Brewing played a key role in Lichfield’s past and by 1732 there were eighty innkeepers recorded in Lichfield .
The coach trade also supplied this industry, as travellers passed through the city stopping at coaching inns such as ‘The Swan’ and ‘The George’.
The Kings Head
Known as the King's Head since c.1650, but previously called the Antelope and The Bush.
Said to be the oldest pub in Lichfield dating from 1408, the King's Head later became one of the city’s many coaching inns. In 1828, the London to Manchester Herald called at the inn each day (except Mondays) and in 1834, the ‘True Blue’ coach ran from here to Birmingham at eight o’clock every morning, and to Rugeley at six o’clock each evening.
The King’s Head is often called the ‘Home of the Staffordshire Regiment’. In March 1705, Colonel Luke Lillingston raised a regiment of foot here at the Inn which would become known as the 38th foot by 1751 and as the 1st Staffordshire Regiment in 1783. After a reorganisation just under a hundred years later, it became the 1st Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment